Author: James Poulos
By James Poulos • Jul 06,2008

That Wack Is ****, Yo

As predicted, The Wackness disappoints. Reihan, on the other hand, doesn’t: Portraying a downbeat sex-obsessed stoner is not the best way to display one’s dazzling range. Famke Janssen was wasted,...

By James Poulos • Jul 05,2008

That Is Wack, Dood

Or doodette. Read Dana Stevens in Slate on The Wackness, a review better than the movie if these are what count for selling points: Luke and his shrink, Dr. Jeffery...

By James Poulos • Jul 05,2008

Vote for Me or I Crush Your Genitals

The horrors of politics in Zimbabwe. One of the big downsides of globe-straddling information technology is that terrible things happening anywhere become instant and persistent public knowledge. The number of...

By James Poulos • Jul 05,2008

Does Hitchens Have a Meta Problem?

George Packer considers: last year he wrote a much-praised column in Vanity Fair about a soldier who joined the military in part because Hitchens’s writings inspired him to, and who...

By James Poulos • Jul 05,2008

Throw Out the Rulebook

Megan makes a characteristically smart comment: Bill Mayer and Clive just had a very interesting exchange on the topic of the American versus the British approach to financial regulation. American...

By James Poulos • Jul 03,2008

Right on Russia

Stephen Cohen has an excellent, urgent column in the IHT on the topic of McCain and Obama’s totally inadequate and positively harmful Russia policies. I have nothing to add for...